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Factors Affecting Relocation In Response To Reservoir Development, Rabel J. Burdge, Richard L. Ludtke
Factors Affecting Relocation In Response To Reservoir Development, Rabel J. Burdge, Richard L. Ludtke
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The focus of this paper is on the question of how rural people anticipate forced moves as a result of flood control projects and how they change their life in accepting separation from familiar surroundings.
A model of faced migration is presented which sees the variables of socioeconomic status, knowledge of reservoir projects, vested interests and the degree of identification with place of affected persons as producing differential apprehension over moving. Differential apprehension is then seen as producing different attitudes toward the project which will influence the type of migration plans.
To test this model of forced migration, data were …